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Antidiuretic hormone liberated the vertebrates from their aqueous environment, and permitted them to establish themselves on dry land. The combination of sensitive volume and osmoreceptors, a pituitary secretory apparatus which can vary its output from virtually zero to high levels in a short space of time, and receptor cells functioning in the ...
Hays, Richard M., Levine, Sherman D.
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Vasopressin and Vasopressin Receptor Antagonists [PDF]
Vasopressin, a neurohypophyseal peptide hormone, is the endogenous agonist at V1a, V1b, and V2 receptors. The most important physiological function of vasopressin is the maintenance of water homeostasis through interaction with V2 receptors in the kidney.
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Vasopressin (antidiuretic hormone) is emerging as a potentially major advance in the treatment of a variety of shock states. Increasing interest in the clinical use of vasopressin has resulted from the recognition of its importance in the endogenous response to shock and from advances in understanding of its mechanism of action.
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Background: We hypothesized that RX246, a vasopressin V1a receptor antagonist, blocks the effect of intranasally administered vasopressin on brain processing of angry Ekman faces.
Royce J Lee +8 more
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Control of Renal Tubular Sodium and Water Absorption - An Animated Model
The kidney is among the most complex of internal organs. This is due in large part to the multiple and integrated mechanisms of the kidney and their highly dynamic regulation by a variety of neurohormonal and hemodynamic inputs.
Jody Gookin +3 more
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Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus associated with a new mutation in the AVPR2 gene
Diabetes insipidus (DI) is an orphan disease clinically characterized by profound thirst and the excretion of large volumes of dilute urine. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is characterized by resistance to the action of antidiuretic hormone (ADH ...
Y. A. Aleynikova +4 more
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The osmoregulation of vasopressin
The concept that secretion of the antidiuretic hormone, arginine vasopressin, is regulated by the osmolality of body water originated with the pioneering studies of Verney over 25 years ago [1]. In a classical series of experiments, this investigator showed that the injection of hypertonic saline into the carotid artery of conscious, hydrated dogs ...
Robertson, Gary L. +2 more
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MagmaFlow: A desktop platform for artificial intelligence‐driven expression analysis
MagmaFlow is a free, no‐code platform for gene expression analysis. It generates interactive volcano plots, links genes to literature, pathways, and diseases, prioritizes candidates using millions of publications, identifies affected biological processes, builds network diagrams, and exports publication‐ready figures and reports for macOS and Windows ...
Carlos E. Buss +7 more
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Symptomatic Hyponatremia following Acute Urinary Retention
Background: Hyponatremia due to acute urinary retention is not a common condition. Moreover, symptomatic hyponatremia requires management with hypertonic saline and other supportive measures mostly in ICU settings.
Suvan Kanti Chowdhury +1 more
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The deposition of Iron on pristine MoS2/Au(111) monolayers produces nanoparticles that donate charge to the support, generating Fe+2‐interfacial species. On the contrary, on defect‐engineered MoS2, sulfur vacancies trap sub‐nanometric Fe clusters and host two excess electrons that redistribute locally, suppressing Fe oxidation without formal Mo ...
Marco Nalesso +10 more
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